Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

Rik van Riel
2010-12-03T17:09:01Z

On 12/03/2010 11:20 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:35:25AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Do you have suggestions on what I should do to make
>> this yield_to functionality work?
>
> Keeping in mind the complications of yield_to, I had suggested we do something
> suggested below:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=129122645006996&w=2
>
> Essentially yield to other tasks on your own runqueue and when you get to run
> again, try reclaiming what you gave up earlier (with a cap on how much one can
> feedback this relinquished time). It can be accomplished via a special form of
> yield(), available only to in-kernel users, kvm in this case.

I don't see how that is going to help get the lock
released, when the VCPU holding the lock is on another
CPU.

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